Author: Lewin Dwinell McPhersonPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Patrick Calhoun immigrated to America in 1733 from Ireland.
Calhoun, Hamilton, Baskin, and Related Families
Author: Lewin Dwinell McPhersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Patrick Calhoun immigrated to America in 1733 from Ireland.
Hamilton Family Records
Author: Marian Sill CummingsOur Kentucky Pioneer Ancestry
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
William Kinkead was born in 1736 in Virginia. He married Eleanor Gay and they had 12 children. Later they moved to Kentucky where their descendants still reside. Information on several branches of his descendants is included in this volume. Descendants now live thoughout the United States.
James Hamilton of South Carolina
Author: Robert TinklerPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
An esteemed planter, politician, and military leader influential in the affairs of both South Carolina and Texas, James Hamilton (1786--1857) so declined in reputation during the last twenty years of his life that his home state refused to acknowledge him when he died. Robert Tinkler's superb, first-published biography of Hamilton conveys the enormous drama, dignity, and pathos that marked Hamilton's pursuit of the greatness achieved by his prominent Revolutionary-era forebears and his subsequent profound reversal brought on by debt. While a member of Congress during the 1820s, Hamilton came to champion states' interests over a strong central national government. As governor of South Carolina, 1830--1832, he reached the pinnacle of his political and social glory when he presided over the Nullification Crisis of 1832. Hamilton's undoing began with a series of ill-advised cotton speculations that left him deeply and very publicly in arrears by 1839. He desperately sought relief -- even supporting the Compromise of 1850 in hopes of monetary benefit, while alienating his old allies in the process. To his fellow southerners, Hamilton became a scourge and embarrassment as one who compromised his political beliefs because of fiscal distress. Perhaps even more than his political apostasy, Hamilton's unforgivable offense may have been to remind planters of their own struggles with chronic debt. Tinkler's extraordinary research into both Hamilton's life and the dynamics of reputation and debt in the antebellum South suggests that many contemporaries simply wished to forget Hamilton's plight so as to avoid facing their own financial reality. Possessing the weight of tragedy, James Hamilton of South Carolina documents a powerful man's achievements and the events and personal flaws that led to his fall.
Our Family, Our Town
Author: 800 Years of Colquhoun, Colhoun, Calhoun, and Cahoon Family History in Ireland, Scotland, England, United States of America, Australia, and Canada
Author: Orval O. CalhounCalhoun
Author: Robert ElderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780465096442
Category : Calhoun Family
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was during his time as Jackson's vice president that he crafted his famous doctrine of "state interposition," which laid the groundwork for the south to secede from the union -- and arguably set the nation on course for civil war. Other accounts of Calhoun have portrayed him as a backward-looking traditionalist -- he was, after all, an outspoken apologist for slavery, which he defended as a "positive good." But he was also an extremely complex thinker, and thoroughly engaged in the modern world. He espoused many ideas that resonate strongly with popular currents today: an impatience for the spectacle and shallowness of politics, a concern about the alliance between wealth and power in government, and a skepticism about the United States' ability to spread its style of democracy throughout the world. Calhoun has catapulted back into the public eye in recent years, as the tensions he navigated and inflamed in his own time have surfaced once again. In 2015, a monument to him in Charleston, South Carolina became a flashpoint after a white supremacist murdered nine African-Americans in a nearby church. And numerous commentators have since argued that Calhoun's retrograde ideas are at the root of the modern GOP's problems with race. Bringing together Calhoun's life, his intellectual contributions -- both good and bad -- and his legacy, Robert Elder's book is a revelatory reconsideration of the antebellum South we thought we knew.
A General History of the Burr Family
Author: Charles Burr ToddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A General History of the Burr Family, With a Genealogical Record from 1193 To 1891 by Charles Burr Todd, first published in 1891, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
History of the Hume, Kennedy and Brockman Families
Author: William Everett BrockmanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Ancestral Notes
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Query and answer section inserted in each issue.